Re: laptop

2000-09-10 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 07:55:55PM -0700 or thereabouts, Nate Amsden wrote: > Michael Soulier wrote: > > screens listed, but none of them seem to work. I guess I can check the IBM > > homepage and try to find the specs there... > > i installed debian on several dell latitude notebooks, seemed the

Re: Debian or Stormix

2000-09-10 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 05:01:49PM -0400 or thereabouts, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > I currently use FreeBSD 4.1. I have played with RH, MD, > SuSE, and Caldera in the past. I like learning new things > and thought that I would like to try Debian. > > As I understand it, Stormix is based on

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-10 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 05:48:29PM -0500 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > greatest packages if I have to sacrifice stability. Debian is the most > stable system I know, so that is what I want to use. My original question, is > how do I convince them of what I already know? > > Wayne

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-10 Thread Art Edwards
Thanks for all of the responses. It turns out that I had forgotten to invoke /sbin/lilo after altering my lilo.conf file. the utility free sees all of my memory now. Sheepishly yours, -- Arthur H. Edwards 712 Valencia Dr. NE Abq. NM 87108 (505) 256-0834

eterm/mutt manual?

2000-09-10 Thread Dale Morris
I saw this recently on a list, but sure can't find it now.. Anyhow, when I hit F1 in eterm, it brings up a menu block rather than the manual for mutt. Any way around this? thanks --dale "The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur."

Re: Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

2000-09-10 Thread Rino Mardo
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 04:01:46PM +0200 or thereabouts, Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > has anyone the same experience with (all packages up-to-date) HelixGnome > and Sawfish: > > The middle mouse button, which brings up sawfish's root menu contained > under "programs" the whole Debian menu with app

RE: hdparm

2000-09-10 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well you would have to try some combinations before the optimum settings can be found..do this by changing one of the settings and testing the performance using hdparm -t /dev/hdathe higher the value, the better the performance...however, if you ar

Re: kernel update?

2000-09-10 Thread Dale Morris
Thanks for the reply, I downloaded the 2.2.17 kernel from kernel.org and compiled it, that's actually easier for me than the debian way for now. dale Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I just did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and apt downloaded the > > kernel2.2.17 sources. I've been

Re: kernel update?

2000-09-10 Thread Shaul Karl
> I just did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and apt downloaded the > kernel2.2.17 sources. I've been running 2.2.16 because I had some > trouble with the 2.2.17 kpkg that I set up. > What kind of troubles? > Question is, did apt configure 2.2.17 kernel to be the one that executes when > I

Re: Phone-answering software?

2000-09-10 Thread Shaul Karl
> Is there any software available for Linux that can intercept phone calls > (to a phone that's connected to a modem), and... > > 1) Serve as an answering machine when the modem isn't in use, and/or > You might want to look at mgetty. I believe there are others. > 2) Inform me when I'm on-li

HELP! with ethernet

2000-09-10 Thread Cam Ellison
I upgraded to potato, although without replacing the slink kernel (2.0.36). Then I installed a D-Link DFE-538TX ethernet card (which uses the RealTek rtl8139.o driver). It was fine. I could ping my kids' machine, could ping mine from theirs, and even had telnet working on theirs (though not the

Re: Getting closer to setting up scanner, but...

2000-09-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:57:53PM -0700, Gutierrez Family wrote: > Thanks to those who have helped me so far with setting up my HP ScanJet 5p ... > One problem is when I type "scanimage --list-devices", I get nothing back, > just another prompt line. And when I type "scanimage", I see > "scanim

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-10 Thread Chris Jenks
At 01:58 PM 9/10/00 -0700, John L . Fjellstad wrote: >On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 10:06:59AM -0400, Chris Jenks wrote: > > >> Which also goes back to Wayne's comment on RH being better because it's >> more popular. > >Also, preinstall has a lot to say, too. That said, berating people >because of the

Harddrive Weirdness

2000-09-10 Thread Gregg C
This is somewhat more of a hardware question but it might interest someone here. I was installing (with the pci/ide disks) on a system that has very been running 2.1 for 9 or 10 months (I built it when I loaded 2.1 on it, so its recent hardware western digital ide hd, asus p5a, k6-2 450), wen

Re: security of deb pkg's proftp and sftp

2000-09-10 Thread Nate Amsden
William Jensen wrote: > > Can anyone shed any light upon the likely security risks I would run using > proftpd vs sftp? From what I can tell sftp is for users only and it sets > up an encrypted connection before any passwords/users names are sent. That's > great, but how secure is this against h

Re: ClassyTcl

2000-09-10 Thread Shaul Karl
> Have not found a deb for ClassyTcl. > I'm running 2.2 woody and have problems compiling the source. > What error messages do you get? > ClassyTcl looks like a robust GUI builder. Installed the Windoze binary to > evaluate it, but only interested in Linux version. > > >= Original Messag

security of deb pkg's proftp and sftp

2000-09-10 Thread William Jensen
Can anyone shed any light upon the likely security risks I would run using proftpd vs sftp? From what I can tell sftp is for users only and it sets up an encrypted connection before any passwords/users names are sent. That's great, but how secure is this against hackers? Any different than proft

Re: laptop

2000-09-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Michael Soulier wrote: > > So I'm installing Linux on my first laptop, an IBM thinkpad, P-III > 500 from work (they had '98 on it *shudder*). Installed fine, but I have > no idea how to configure X. > What monitor do I chose for these LCD things? There are three LCD > screens liste

laptop

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Soulier
So I'm installing Linux on my first laptop, an IBM thinkpad, P-III 500 from work (they had '98 on it *shudder*). Installed fine, but I have no idea how to configure X. What monitor do I chose for these LCD things? There are three LCD screens listed, but none of them seem to work.

Re: apm/hdparm/power-supply saga, latest installment

2000-09-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > curious why you'd be so interested in doing all this i could never see > why people wanted to suspend/sleep a desktop system(a notebook i can > see..) Yeah I get this question a lot. To me it's really obvious though: I live in a small apartment and the no

RE: hdparm

2000-09-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
How do I know if I need any of these options for my hard drive? Are the kernel/ide driver defaults reasonable? Do these flags improve performance? (Right now I'm just using hdparm -y to spin down the disk) -chris On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED M

Re: apm/hdparm/power-supply saga, latest installment

2000-09-10 Thread Nate Amsden
curious why you'd be so interested in doing all this i could never see why people wanted to suspend/sleep a desktop system(a notebook i can see..) as far as the power supply fan is concerned, i had a 486 a while back that did this. it had a temperature senstive fan, if the temp was above XX the fa

RE: Weird messages after kernel compiling...

2000-09-10 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK...what you need is to cp from /usr/src/linux "System.map" to /boot and replace the file "System.map-". Also, what I normally do is mv /lib/modules/ to /lib/modules/.original (Just in case the "backward compatibility" setting was not enabled during t

Re: NEC 260 cdROM

2000-09-10 Thread William Jensen
If your very new, perhaps you do not know this is a list for debian gnu/linux. It sounds like your asking for windoze driver help. If that is the case I would recommend going to gateway's www site and downloading the cd-rom drivers from them. Alternatively you should have a rescue/windows install

RE: hdparm

2000-09-10 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I included an additional SXX in the rc2.d dir as follows:- #! /bin/sh # Enabling dma for hda hdparm -d1 -c1 -a1 -A1 -m8 -k1 /dev/hda Remember to chmod the file created to 755 less it does not execute at boot. Also, I'd manually try this first before

NEC 260 cdROM

2000-09-10 Thread dwaetta
I am novice novice! Long strory. Problem I have a Gateway 2000 1995 model. I had to reformat to correct some missing files. I lost the Driver for the NEC 260 that is in my tower. Everything seems to be working but the CDROM. I found this while checking the Internet (only a few hours experie

apm/hdparm/power-supply saga, latest installment

2000-09-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
-- For the knowledgeable and impatient, there are two questions at the end of this post: 1) How to stop both the hard disk and the cpu fan at the same time? 2) How to stop the power supply fan? -- OK here's the latest Re: putting my machine to sleep. First of all, what I w

Re: debian-user-digest down?

2000-09-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 10:19:27AM -0400, Kent Pirkle wrote: > I've not received the debian-user-digest or debian-devl-digest for > the last couple of days. Is anyone else having this problem? Same here:(, so I finally switched to the non-digest -- groetjes, carel

RE: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-10 Thread Dexter Graphic
Thanks for helping me understand how the Debian apt-get program can be used instead of the Helix-Gnome updater utility to install the latest version of Gnome from the HelixCode web site. Here is a summary of what I've learned: 1. Login as root. Note: I assume that Gnome and maybe even X should no

Re: hard drive errors..

2000-09-10 Thread ktb
Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > > Hi all, > > on our / partition whenever anyone tries to ssh in we get: > > Sep 11 10:45:39 kaos kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > Sep 11 10:45:39 kaos kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 > { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=34431, s

Re: Required Hardware?

2000-09-10 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:39:07PM -0400, Jeffrey H. Young wrote: > I have an Intel 386, with 3.5"-1.44MB & 5.25"-1.2MG floppies, a Backpack > CDROM on my parallel port, and WDC AC21200H 1279MB hard drive1 and a ST3145A > 130MB hard drive2, VGA, Serial, yada yada. Your hardware requirements says

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 01:58:45PM -0700, John L . Fjellstad wrote: [snip] > distributions can't start using debs. Heck, every major version of > RPM is incompatible with previous version anyways. Reason I switched is > because the RPM used in 6.x (v3.x) can't read packages for 7 (v4). > Now, I do

Re: Extreme disappointment. :(

2000-09-10 Thread Shane Pearson
>Use md5sum OK thanks Antonio,

Re: It Must be the Matrox G400

2000-09-10 Thread Paul T. McNally
on 9/10/00 4:03 PM, Philipp Schulte at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One possible solution is to find somebody with the same mouse and ask > him hor his config. You could just copy the "pointer" section. I could reinstall Redhat and look at it's config looks.. and then, well that would be ti

Re: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded

2000-09-10 Thread kmself
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 05:37:25PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What's up with the "mailbox" full messages? > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:04:38AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -|Dear Sir/Madam There's a misconfigured mailer which is bouncing replies to sender rat

Re: Extreme disappointment. :(

2000-09-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Use md5sum Shane Pearson wrote: > :) I realise I can't fix the errors, I just want a reliable methodm of > testing the CD to show the shop that they are faulty. > > Thanks. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

hard drive errors..

2000-09-10 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
Hi all, on our / partition whenever anyone tries to ssh in we get: Sep 11 10:45:39 kaos kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Sep 11 10:45:39 kaos kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=34431, sector=343 68 Sep 11 10:45:39 kaos kernel: end

Problem installing Oracle 8i

2000-09-10 Thread James Grant
Hi, I am trying to install Oracle 8i on a Debian box and even though I have followed the directions to the tee, I keep recieving the same error when I try to run the "./runInstaller" command. This is the error I am recieving: Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre. Pl

Re: Extreme disappointment. :(

2000-09-10 Thread Shane Pearson
:) I realise I can't fix the errors, I just want a reliable methodm of testing the CD to show the shop that they are faulty. Thanks.

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-10 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 03:54:13AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > If there are no fixed events then everything should go in the yearly > > files. > > The events are fixed. The main point is that the Jewish calendar is based on > the motion of the moon, so that a regular Jewish year is 354 days long

Re: gnapster

2000-09-10 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 05:53:59PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > I've found that gnome-napster works perfectly whereas gnapster stays > disconnected. However, gnome-napster has few less features, but at least > its a temporary answer. > Andrei I have a different problem when I use gnome-napster--I

Re: changing partiton size

2000-09-10 Thread ktb
QBA wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a problem because in a few days will have no free space > on one of my partitons. I mounted on it /var directory and gave > only 150MB for use. But now (after 3 months) I have only 21MB free. > Because I also have one almost unused partition I thought that maybe > I

Re: changing partiton size

2000-09-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:08:10AM +0200, QBA wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a problem because in a few days will have no free space > on one of my partitons. I mounted on it /var directory and gave > only 150MB for use. But now (after 3 months) I have only 21MB free. > Because I also have one almost

changing partiton size

2000-09-10 Thread QBA
Hi, I have a problem because in a few days will have no free space on one of my partitons. I mounted on it /var directory and gave only 150MB for use. But now (after 3 months) I have only 21MB free. Because I also have one almost unused partition I thought that maybe I could resize these 2 parti

Re: gnapster

2000-09-10 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I've found that gnome-napster works perfectly whereas gnapster stays disconnected. However, gnome-napster has few less features, but at least its a temporary answer. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This sum

Problem installing Oracle 8i

2000-09-10 Thread James Grant
Hi, I am trying to install Oracle 8i on a Debian box and even though I have followed the directions to the tee, I keep recieving the same error when I try to run the "./runInstaller" command. This is the error I am recieving: Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /usr/local/jre/bin/jre. Pl

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-10 Thread techlists
> > Which also goes back to Wayne's comment on RH being better because it's > > more popular.=20 > > Well, the reason I got RedHat initially was because that was the > only version of Linux at the local Fry's (or was it CompUSA?) store. > Today's newbies can choose between alot more distribution

Re: realplayer plugin

2000-09-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
I vaguely remember, after installing realplayer, having to manually run one of the shell scripts (maybe mime-install??) it comes with. As for the mimetype-application bindings, editing ~/.mailcap works for me. -chris On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: > > Does anyone have the rea

Re: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded

2000-09-10 Thread QBA
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:57:09PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > > Is everyone else getting bounces from [EMAIL PROTECTED] or > is it just me? I assume it will eventually be noticed by the list > admin? I sent 2 messages to the list and got 2 messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] the same notice as yo

Getting closer to setting up scanner, but...

2000-09-10 Thread Gutierrez Family
Thanks to those who have helped me so far with setting up my HP ScanJet 5p scanner.  I think I'm almost there, but I'm probably missing one (or a few) last steps...  Here's a summary so far:   From bootup messages, my scanner seems to be detected - OK !:   Sep 8 18:46:54 navi kernel: Vendo

Re: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded

2000-09-10 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
What's up with the "mailbox" full messages? On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:04:38AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -|Dear Sir/Madam -| -|Your message cannot be delivered to the recipient because his/her mail box storage limit has exceeded. -| -|The summary of your previous message: -|From:

Re: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded

2000-09-10 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
What's up with all the "mail box full" messages? On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:04:38AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -|Dear Sir/Madam -| -|Your message cannot be delivered to the recipient because his/her mail box storage limit has exceeded. -| -|The summary of your previous message: -|From:

Re: realplayer plugin

2000-09-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 03:56:57PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > Hmm. Didn't work for me. If I add both of these entries, it tells > me that a plugin for audio/x-pn-realaudio could not be found. Without > these entries, and just the audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin with an rpm suffix > pointing

Re: two apt-get questions

2000-09-10 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Sean" == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 2. How do I get apt-get to tell me which version of a package it >> would install, without actually installing it, regardless of >> the version of the existing package if any? Sean> apt-get -s foo bar Sorry, but i

/debian-non-US/dists/woody/Contents-*.gz

2000-09-10 Thread Horvath Akos Peter
...hi all, what is happened with this file(s)? Only Contents-hurd-i386.gz and Contents-arm.gz are in ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US :-( bye MaXX

Re: It Must be the Matrox G400

2000-09-10 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:13:44PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > I've seen this type of mouse behavior before when gdm(?) is being run. If > you check the archives just a couple weeks ago you will see a fair amount > of usefull fixes for this situation. It's called "gpm". It sucks ;) Phil

Re: It Must be the Matrox G400

2000-09-10 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:12:08PM -0500, Paul T. McNally wrote: > I did a reinstall. The first time I installed potato, the mouse was > all fd up, it sticks to the bottom of the screen and refuses to > com up. I can see the tip of the pointer on the bottom edge of the > screen. When that happene

Re: gnapster

2000-09-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Dale Morris wrote: > > I just checked on the official napster website and it says the system is > up and functioning.. but it's not working on my system, does anyone else > have it working? not here, it always gives login incorrect even if i try a new account. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://w

Re: XF68_FBDev

2000-09-10 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 05:05:37PM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote: > IIRC this is just for use with the m68k arch systems - I used this when > I was running Debian on my Amigas. I *think* that the Frame Buffer drivers have been used on more architectures than that. But now they've been ported to x86 as

gnapster

2000-09-10 Thread Dale Morris
I just checked on the official napster website and it says the system is up and functioning.. but it's not working on my system, does anyone else have it working? -- "The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur."

Debian or Stormix

2000-09-10 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I currently use FreeBSD 4.1. I have played with RH, MD, SuSE, and Caldera in the past. I like learning new things and thought that I would like to try Debian. As I understand it, Stormix is based on Debian. Other than different "system installers" and Stormix has a "graphical" boot screen, are

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-10 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 10:06:59AM -0400, Chris Jenks wrote: > >From what I have seen since this thread started, IMHO, is that a lot of RH > users that have > switched to Debian enjoy Debian more. Now this might be geek like, or gump > like I'm not > sure, Well, the reason I enjoy Debian more

Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

2000-09-10 Thread Kai Weber
Hi, has anyone the same experience with (all packages up-to-date) HelixGnome and Sawfish: The middle mouse button, which brings up sawfish's root menu contained under "programs" the whole Debian menu with apps ... Since some days I miss it! There are only some entries: xterm, Emacs, Netscape and

Re: no ping

2000-09-10 Thread ktb
Michael Soulier wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, ktb wrote: > > > From: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue55/stoddard.html > > > > Before you save and close the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, we want to keep > > the system from responding to ICMP requests, such as ping > > and traceroute, so we add the f

Re: no ping

2000-09-10 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:02:17PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies > > They're there already. However, a ping localhost still works... Notice the "1" in the above statements. That mea

Re: realplayer plugin

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Soulier
Hmm. Didn't work for me. If I add both of these entries, it tells me that a plugin for audio/x-pn-realaudio could not be found. Without these entries, and just the audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin with an rpm suffix pointing to the plugin, I get: Unable to establish a connection to the server:

Re: shut down cpu fan on suspend?

2000-09-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
Yeah, there's an option in the BIOS called "fan off on suspend" which I've set, but it doesn't seem to help.. -chris On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > > Has anyone managed to have their cpu fan shut down when they > > (and/or their machine) go to sleep? Can A

Re: Extreme disappointment. :(

2000-09-10 Thread C. Falconer
Yeah - it sounds useless, but its prime use is to fsck iso-style images mounted in the file system, before burning them to CDROM At 10:44 AM 9/10/00 -0700, you wrote: Shane Pearson wrote: > I noticed that fsck /cdrom reveals the possibility of fsck.iso9660, so do you know where I can get that

Re: realplayer plugin

2000-09-10 Thread Jaume Teixi
On Netscape you must handedit Preferences-Navigator - Applications both two following handlers should have there: Description RealAudio MIMETypeaudio/x-pn-realaudio Suffixes ra,rm,ram v Use this MIME as outgoing default Application/usr/local/RealPlayer7/realplay %s Desc

Re: It Must be the Matrox G400

2000-09-10 Thread William Jensen
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:12:08PM -0500, Paul T. McNally wrote: > I did a reinstall. The first time I installed potato, the mouse was > all fd up, it sticks to the bottom of the screen and refuses to > com up. I can see the tip of the pointer on the bottom edge of the > screen. When that happened,

realplayer plugin

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Soulier
Does anyone have the realplayer plugin working? Realplayer works fine, but when I go to a site like http://www.cbc.ca and try the realplayer video there, or CNN.com, the plugin doesn't seem to work. Mike "To listen to the words of the learned, and to instill into others the less

It Must be the Matrox G400

2000-09-10 Thread Paul T. McNally
I did a reinstall. The first time I installed potato, the mouse was all fd up, it sticks to the bottom of the screen and refuses to com up. I can see the tip of the pointer on the bottom edge of the screen. When that happened, I ran XF86Setup and changed a couple settings on the mouse and I think t

root access for rdist

2000-09-10 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I need to use rdist to sync some system files from one machine to another. I am unable to access the second machine as root. I have made a .rhosts in the second machines /root dir and tried to put ALL: local in /etc/hosts.allow. Both machines are rather verbatim Debian 2.2 I assume root is prevente

RE: kernel 2.4.0-test7

2000-09-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I upgraded from potato to woody and installed the newest kernel. > However, when I boot with the new kernel, it locks up when it tries to > start inetd. If I boot with the old kernel, everything loads > perfectly. Does anyone know what this could be? Th

My orphaned packages.

2000-09-10 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
[ CC me in replies; I am not subscribed right now. ] I do not have time anymore to work on the packages I once maintained for Debian. I'm sorry that I did not properly orphan them. I just don't have time for it. My health is most important, followed by studies. I cannot live in a

kernel 2.4.0-test7

2000-09-10 Thread lbredeso
I upgraded from potato to woody and installed the newest kernel. However, when I boot with the new kernel, it locks up when it tries to start inetd. If I boot with the old kernel, everything loads perfectly. Does anyone know what this could be? luke

Re: no ping

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Soulier
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, ktb wrote: > From: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue55/stoddard.html > > Before you save and close the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, we want to keep > the system from responding to ICMP requests, such as ping > and traceroute, so we add the following lines right after the #!/bin/s

Re: no ping

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Soulier
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, ktb wrote: > From: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue55/stoddard.html > > Before you save and close the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, we want to keep > the system from responding to ICMP requests, such as ping > and traceroute, so we add the following lines right after the #!/bin/s

Re: gnapster problems

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Soulier
Except that I rebooted into *shudder* windoze to see if the official napster client was still working, and it was. I rebooted into Linux and gnapster was having the same problems. Maybe part of napster is shut down and I got lucky in windoze? Don't know... It'd be cool to continue

Re: Weird messages after kernel compiling...

2000-09-10 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 10:50:34AM -0700 or thereabouts, John L . Fjellstad wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 05:22:45PM -0700, Gutierrez Family wrote: > > > I saw a whole screen-full of "*** Unresolved symbols in > > /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/" > > I usually delete the /lib/modules/2.2.17 direct

Re: XF68_FBDev

2000-09-10 Thread Lee Elliott
Parrish M Myers wrote: > > Hi, > > I just got matroxfb working correctly and noticed that there is a frame > buffer console x server called XF68_FBDev. Has anyone used this in > Debian? If so are there any screenshots that show what it looks like? > I am very interested to see what it can do. >

Re: Weird messages after kernel compiling...

2000-09-10 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 05:22:45PM -0700, Gutierrez Family wrote: > I saw a whole screen-full of "*** Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/" I usually delete the /lib/modules/2.2.17 directory, before I do a 'make modules_install'. Try that. -- John__

Re: shut down cpu fan on suspend?

2000-09-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Krzys Majewski wrote: > > Has anyone managed to have their cpu fan shut down when they > (and/or their machine) go to sleep? Can APM do this? I > realize there is also ACPI but it looks like the linux impl > doesn't yet cover all the bases. -chris the bios should have an option to do this, mine d

Re: Extreme disappointment. :(

2000-09-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Shane Pearson wrote: > > Sorry about the long line lengths and blank message. I am emailing from > telnet in Win98 (unfortunately). 'mail' is'nt very friendly as you know > compared with a fuller featured... > > Anyway, the store I bought the CD's from do not yet carry pressed Potsatoes. > > I

Re: no ping

2000-09-10 Thread ktb
Michael Soulier wrote: > > Hey guys. How do you block ping responses, if you so chose? I > don't see a ping service in /etc/inetd.conf or /etc/services. > > Mike > > "To listen to the words of the learned, and to instill into others the > lessons of science, is better than religi

shut down cpu fan on suspend?

2000-09-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
Has anyone managed to have their cpu fan shut down when they (and/or their machine) go to sleep? Can APM do this? I realize there is also ACPI but it looks like the linux impl doesn't yet cover all the bases. -chris

no ping

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Soulier
Hey guys. How do you block ping responses, if you so chose? I don't see a ping service in /etc/inetd.conf or /etc/services. Mike "To listen to the words of the learned, and to instill into others the lessons of science, is better than religious exercises." -- Prop

RE: sound interrupts

2000-09-10 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 10-Sep-2000 Michael Soulier wrote: > > Hey guys. How do I raise the priority of the interrupt that the > soundcard is on so that music doesn't "stutter" during heavy disk > operations? Use irqtune from the hwtools package.

nuking old man pages?

2000-09-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anyone else have this problem where old manpages refuse to die and provide confusing outdated information? I just had this with "hdparm" and "mount". In the first case, there was an old manpage in /usr/man/ which took precedence over the new one in /usr/share/man. In the second case, there was a /u

Re: gnapster problems

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Soulier
Makes me wonder what it could be. It was working fine before. Mike On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Dale Morris wrote: > It's probably a gnapster issue then.. > > Michael Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Dale Morris wrote: > > > > > When I try to use gnapster, I

Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded (fwd)

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Soulier
Maybe someone should do something about this? ;-) Mike "To listen to the words of the learned, and to instill into others the lessons of science, is better than religious exercises." -- Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 1

Re: Debian 2.2 or woody

2000-09-10 Thread Mike Werner
Julio Merino wrote: > Hi, > > I'm going to install a new debian system at home (as I commented in > some other messages)... but I'm now wondering if installing the 2.2 or > woody version... > > Since I discovered apt :-) in slink, I've been always using the > unstable distribution. I would use 2.

Re: gnapster problems

2000-09-10 Thread Dale Morris
It's probably a gnapster issue then.. Michael Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Dale Morris wrote: > > > When I try to use gnapster, I get a message: disconnected. When I select > > connect to official server or last server there's some network activity, > > but then it sh

Re: gnapster problems

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Soulier
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Dale Morris wrote: > When I try to use gnapster, I get a message: disconnected. When I select > connect to official server or last server there's some network activity, > but then it shows disconnected. Is there a problem with napster? More > legal problems? or is it my system

Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
Oh yeah according to my docs you should be adding stuff to /etc/apm/event.d, /etc/apm/suspend.d is deprecated.. -chris On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote: > I've tryied to add the hdparm script in /etc/apm/suspend.d... the disk > shut down, but in a while wake up another time. I think it's b

Re: replace chars in filenames?

2000-09-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
Here's a csh hack for doing this. I didn't write it (csh? ugh) it but I do use it from time to time. Maybe test it first to make sure it does what you want. -chris #!/bin/csh -f # Performs search & replace on the given files if ( $#argv < 3 ) then echo "Usage: replace " exit

gnapster problems

2000-09-10 Thread Dale Morris
When I try to use gnapster, I get a message: disconnected. When I select connect to official server or last server there's some network activity, but then it shows disconnected. Is there a problem with napster? More legal problems? or is it my system? Here's what I've changed since the last time it

sound interrupts

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Soulier
Hey guys. How do I raise the priority of the interrupt that the soundcard is on so that music doesn't "stutter" during heavy disk operations? Mike "To listen to the words of the learned, and to instill into others the lessons of science, is better than religious exercises."

Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?

2000-09-10 Thread Krzys Majewski
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 05:59:38PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > Sep 8 17:50:11 mi apmd[1744]: User Suspend > > Sep 8 17:50:13 mi kernel: apm: busy: Unable to enter requested state > > I get the exact message. I am sure it is a BIOS problem

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-10 Thread Jaume Teixi
just type exactly append mem=768M on a line in lilo.conf then on / run lilo reboot, what free command shows to you? > > > mem=768M > > > > but it still sees only 65 M? > > > > Does anyone have any ideas? > > Where are you applying the append command -- at the LILO boot prompt or > in /etc/lilo

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